Egon Günther
German film director and screenwriter
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| Born | (1927-03-30)30 March 1927 Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany |
| Died | 31 August 2017(2017-08-31) (aged 90) Potsdam, Germany |
| Occupation(s) | Film director Screenwriter |
| Years active | 1961 – 2002 |
Egon Günther (30 March 1927 – 31 August 2017)[1] was a German film director and writer.
His film Lotte in Weimar was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival.[2] In 1985, his film Morenga was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 35th Berlin International Film Festival.[3] He was a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.
Selected filmography
- The Dress (co-director: Konrad Petzold, 1961) — (based on The Emperor's New Clothes)
- Lots Weib (1965)
- Wenn du groß bist, lieber Adam (1966, released 1990)
- Abschied [de] (1968) — (based on a novel by Johannes R. Becher)
- Junge Frau von 1914 [de] (1970, TV film) — (based on a novel by Arnold Zweig)
- Anlauf (1971, TV film) — (based on a story by Benito Wogatzki)
- Her Third (1971) — (based on a story by Eberhard Panitz)
- Erziehung vor Verdun (1973, TV miniseries) — (based on a novel by Arnold Zweig)
- Die Schlüssel (1974)
- Lotte in Weimar (East Germany/West Germany, 1974) — (based on Lotte in Weimar: The Beloved Returns)
- Die Leiden des jungen Werthers [de] (1976) — (based on The Sorrows of Young Werther)
- Ursula [de] (Switzerland/East Germany, 1978, TV film) — (based on a novel by Gottfried Keller)
- Exil (1981, TV miniseries) — (based on a novel by Lion Feuchtwanger)
- Euch darf ich's wohl gestehen (1982, TV film) — (film about Goethe and Chancellor von Müller)
- Hanna von acht bis acht (1983, TV film)
- Morenga (1985) — (based on a novel by Uwe Timm)
- Mamas Geburtstag (1985, TV film)
- Die letzte Rolle (1986, TV film)
- Heimatmuseum [de] (1988, TV miniseries) — (based on a novel by Siegfried Lenz)
- Rosamunde [de] (1990)
- Stein [de] (1991)
- Lenz (1992, TV film) — (film about Goethe and Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz)
- Die Braut [de] (1999) — (film about Goethe and Christiane Vulpius)
- Else – Geschichte einer leidenschaftlichen Frau (2000, TV film) — (based on a novel by Angelika Schrobsdorff)
References
- ^ Egon Günther ist tot, in: Tagesspiegel, 31 August 2017.
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Lotte in Weimar". festival-cannes.com. Archived from the original on 26 September 2012. Retrieved 28 April 2009.
- ^ "Berlinale: 1985 Programme". berlinale.de. Retrieved 9 January 2011.
External links
- Egon Günther at IMDb
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